NOT A DRAW CARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 5 (Supplement)

NOT A DRAW CARD.

Why Osbourne Can't Get

Boxing Bouts.

Bert Osbourne, Victorian lightweight champion, is one of the best lighters of his weight seen in Australia in recent years, lie can go in at 0.8, and is a ('leanliving, hard-training voting fellow, always ready to step in with anyone at all near his weight. lie cannot get a light.

A. few months ago lie filled a breach at Melbourne and took on A 1 foreman an hour or so after a meal. Bert stayed the full distance with the imported crack, and by this and many other demonstrations of his bulldog tenacity and ability to give and take, he has built up a name for himself as a capable, honest mittman. All the dancing masters, built-up champs, and their managers, won't have Osbourne. '"lie's not a draw!" is their

This is a tragedy of the system which is wending its way to the day when boxing will be looked upon in Australia as a smellful jest, anil only the needy and the greedy will be found in the halls where it is exploited.

The great card that should be has to go out to some small stadium and light if lie wishes to eat.

Bert Osbov.rnc lias ]ia<l to do this ill Sydney on former occasions, because he wasn't a draw—they said. lie has beaten Kel.o and others of champ elasts. Tie goes in and never lets tin till the bell.